There is no shortage of City heavyweights embroiled in the garden bridge debacle. Transport for London reported this week that the white elephant cost taxpayers £43 million. The chairman of the charity behind it all was Mervyn Davies, aka Lord Davies of Abersoch, the former chief executive, then chairman, of Standard Chartered. Also rubbing shoulders with Joanna Lumley, below, on the board were Stephen Fitzgerald, a former big shot at Goldman Sachs, and John Heaps, chairman of Yorkshire Building Society. Adding his silver-tongued backing to the bonkers project was Roland Rudd, the PR supremo who battled for Remain.
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One side-effect of the collapse of Patisserie Valerie in a heap has been a nervous rush by public companies to double-check the accuracy of their